Photo courtesy of Karapatan-Timog Katagalugan. The arrests and the disproportionate show of force were likened to the “shock-and-awe tactics of Oplan Sauron” in Negros Island. By JUSTIN UMALI Bulatlat.com SANTA ROSA, Laguna – Elements of Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) on board 47 vehicles swooped in on…
The Davao City government has advised all government and private search and rescue teams to be on alert and on full operations for possible landslide and flooding brought by tropical depression Ambo.
STATEMENT WHILE THE DUTERTE REGIME is failing to flatten the curve of the coronavirus’ spread, it is accelerating the curve of another mounting pandemic afflicting the nation – the pandemic of impunity. State forces are relentlessly pursuing attacks against the freedom of expression and of the press, mere days after mounting its most massive offensive…
“What we want to see is how this ECQ is being used to stop the spread of the virus and not just to incarcerate the people in their homes while the government is not making any effort to aggressively conduct mass testing.” By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com MANILA – After nearly two months of enhanced…
Modern day heroes? For decades, their remittances have kept the country’s economy afloat. But in this Bulatlatan episode, overseas Filipino workers in UK and Canada discuss the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic to their lives and jobs and the apparent lack of government assistance they are receiving. The post Bulatlatan | Far from home: OFWs caught…
Boy Domingiez’s painting By Deaconess Sharon David McCart United Methodist Church We are living in difficult times. The threat comes not only from Covid-19 but also from food shortages and extrajudicial killings, of being imprisoned (justly or unjustly) in overcrowded conditions. Too many of us know someone who has died during this pandemic. Too many of…
With the travel restriction still in effect in many parts of Mindanao, a bus company resumed its operations to serve mainly the medical frontliners.
Groups such as the University of the Philippines Film Institute, the Altermidya Network and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines took to Facebook to broadcast a black screen symbolizing the sign off the media giant was forced to undergo by the Rodrigo Duterte government. The post Press freedom advocates hold black screen broadcast protests over…